Architecture of Workflow Management System Based on Web, Java and CORBA Technology

The Web based workflow mangement systems received a lot of attention because of their wide application in the commercial area. But currently adopted Web technology can not solve many problems in distributed application. The article puts forward a distributed workflow management system architecture, which adopts Web technology as the communication infrastructure between client and server, Java as the language to program in Internet,CORBA to simplify the complexity of distributed systems. A workflow management system based on Petri nets model has been implemented. It has shown the effectiveness of the architecture.